REGARDING the deselection of Councillor Peter Greenwood (LET, January 17), what a tragedy for the people of Blackburn that the last vestige of honour within the Blackburn Labour Group has been summarily cast adrift by his own party.

The old warhorse has been made to suffer the final ignomy for having the guts and temerity to stand up to those Labour group megalomaniacs who tore up the book on democracy in Blackburn to create the new Kremlin.

Peter has never flinched from the responsibilities of office and has dealt fairly with all his constituents' concerns with honour and truth. Dorothy Walsh and her merry band at the Labour committee will rue the day that they turned their backs on this fine councillor.

JEFFREY STONE, Jeff Stone Hairdressing, Fleming Square, Blackburn.